Quotes P3 - John Hancock

John Hancock, who was a Merchant, president of the Second Continental Congress, governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the 1st Signer of the Declaration of Independence stated this,
"Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. ... Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” - History of the United States of America, Vol. II, p. 229.